That’s unfortunate. Most of time I just use lts kernel. I too am just using servers accessed via ssh and terminal.

I’ve ran arch for many years in many vms acting as servers. I’ve never had any more issues with arch than Ubuntu. With any system you can choose you need your keep backups or snap shots

I tried npm and it’s good for simple things…however with anything complex you actually have to know nginx pretty well which at that point I’d just use the swag container. I agree traefik is much more complex to learn initially…like I struggled for days until like finally a lighbulb went on and I kind of figured it out. It would be tough to start out with traefik without some background configuring a different reverse proxy. A lot of users sware by caddy so to its ease of use but then again it doesn’t provide a gui. I do really enjoy traefiks dashboard as to verify the configuration is set appropriately however